0 a process in which animals, for example bats (= small animals with wings that fly at night), find their way in the dark by producing sound waves that echo (= are heard again) when they are reflected off an object: --
Dolphins locate underwater creatures using echolocation.
Some animals use echolocation and these include swiftlets, bats and river dolphins.
The bulldog bat mostly forages for fish during high tide and locates them with echolocation.
Echolocation pulses, barks, chatters, and screeches are used in various social situations including courtship and territorial defense.
This is further zoomed in on two echolocation calls.
However, with more understanding of the physics of echolocation, considerable research has been conducted in extracting more information from the ultrasonic echoes rather than just arrival times from single transducers.
Finally, the book only weakly relies on psychoacoustics for its argument, except for basic information about binaural localisation which is generally grouped under the heading of echolocation.
Maternal genes could benefit from echolocation imagery if it allowed for more reliable assessments of information in an aquatic environment where visual assessments are error-prone.
The eye provides the premier example, although just the same arguments could be put forward for any of the other sensory systems, such as olfaction, audition, echolocation and electro-reception.
